| This question <26|26> overall <24|26> Yeltsin: <25|25>. |
| Question 69: Why must every individual commodity be considered as an average sample of its kind? |
| [25] Yeltsin: Commodities as an average sample of its kind The answer to this question also, in part answers the question of why a lazy or slow worker does not receive more money for the products he or she produces. |
| If you did not value a product or commodity as an average sample of its kind and due to the fact that the value of a commodity fluctuates in proportion to the amount of congealed labor time invested in that commodity, it would stand to reason that a slower or lazier worker could charge more for his or her product. However when determining the value of a particular commodity with in a group of commodities of the same kind, Trosne states, the price should be determined generally “and without regard of the particular circumstances.” (Le Trosne, [LT46, p. 893]) |
| When Trosne states: “...without regard of the particular circumstances”, I understand that to mean that if a person takes more time than the socially accepted labor time or is slower due to a different production method other than the social production method, and the product has the same use value as the other products of the same kind, then a higher price cannot be fetched, “for the buyers do not distinguish between them.” (Econ 5080, Ehrbar pg. 22) Because the use values of the two products of the same kind are the same, it forces slower workers with identical products to compete with average workers, thereby making it impossible for them to fetch a higher market price. That is why, when valuing an individual commodity, it must be considered as an average sample of its kind. |
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